Gay Defn & Meang - Merriam-Webster

Contents:

• HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO
• ENGLISH PRONUNCIATN OF GAY
• AM I GAY?
• WHAT DO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ ACTUALLY SAY?
• GAY
• WHAT THE BILL DUBBED ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BY CRICS ACTUALLY SAYS
• WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE GAY? DEFN AND MEANG OF GAY
• HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
• 'SAY GAY' BILLBOARDS THAT FY GOV. RON DESANTIS' SO-LLED DON'T SAY GAY BILL ARE ABOUT TO BE POPPG UP FLORIDA CI
• SYNONYMS OF GAY
• CATNS GAY
• WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?

HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO

But Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn act — which crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill — has sudnly sparked a natnal war of recent weeks, lears of global rporatns, edorial boards of major newspapers and Hollywood actors have all weighed on the proposed legislatn, wh some llg “eply disturbg” and others “nonntroversial. ” Conversely, opponents say would unfairly target the LGBTQ muny — particularly gay and trans stunts — and is “pretendg to solve a problem that don’t exist.

For starters, cricism that the “Don’t Say Gay” bill do not fact say “gay” anywhere s text is te. The bill, which passed Florida’s Senate last week and the state’s Hoe of Reprentativ Febary, do, however, nta the terms “sexual orientatn” and “genr inty, ” each legal experts say that whether the bill prohibs the word “gay” self is a “distractn. “The ‘Don’t Say Gay’ moniker is a moniker about a certa polil amg of this suatn.

ENGLISH PRONUNCIATN OF GAY

”Beyond brandg, a re argument over the bill centers around whether would prohib the “stctn” or “discsn” of sexual bill’s sponsors have emphatilly stated that the bill would not prohib stunts om talkg about their LGBTQ fai or bar classroom discsns about LGBTQ history, cludg events like the 2016 adly attack on the Pulse nightclub, a gay club Orlando.

AM I GAY?

Only sce the begng of the 20th century has queer been ed to refer to people who intify as gay or lbian. The standard fn of homosexual is “a person sexually attracted to people of one’s own sex. ” But, ’s typilly applied to men, and lbian is the term for a female homosexual.

GLAAD prefers that we don’t e the term homosexual bee ’s “aggrsively ed by anti-gay extremists to suggt that gay people are somehow diseased or psychologilly/emotnally disorred.

Bee suggts that beg lbian, gay, bisexual, or of another sexual orientatn is a choice and the person n be “cured.

WHAT DO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ ACTUALLY SAY?

The word gay refers to a homosexual man, but origally meant “lighthearted, joyful, reee. ” Gay as an adjective meang “homosexual” go back at least to the 1930s.

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In the LGBTQ muny, gay liftyle, as well as homosexual liftyle, are sometim owned upon.

It’s OK to scribe someone you know who publicly self-intifi as gay, lbian, bisexual, or another sexual orientatn as out. It’s also OK to scribe someone as openly gay, lbian, or bisexual. But never out someone, or expose their lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr inty, whout permissn.

WHAT THE BILL DUBBED ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BY CRICS ACTUALLY SAYS

But, people who are gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr also re about a wi variety of other polil, social, and cultural issu.

The term homosexual agenda is ed by anti-gay extremists to create a climate of fear and mistst.

It’s sometim ed as a disparagg way to scribe the recment of heterosexuals to a homosexual liftyle. I n fd ltle evince of this on the ter, but sce gay culture is passed down through hearsay and gossip, I’m cludg this. Some archivist or queer historian may rroborate or squash this ia, one I heard om a gay elr and pass on to you — that “queer” was actually the word preferred by the first wave of queens, h om the closet, sweatg word-of-mouth disthequ that migrated through the cy.

WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE GAY? DEFN AND MEANG OF GAY

Acrdg to the ter, “queer” first beme an antigay slur durg the trials of Osr Wil. So many zgers are rerd om those trials that this seems plsible: Sir John Douglas, the Marqus of Queensbury (serly), who first lled Wil a sodome and lnched the gay playwright’s epic mise, reportedly lled Wil a “snob queer” durg the proceedgs. A mon slogan you n still fd on T-shirts and queer bars across the untry is “Not gay as happy, but queer as ‘fuck you.

“Queer” addrs the fluidy of genr and sexual orientatn and f those who e as people foced on problems largely ignored by the gay rights movement: racism, wage equaly, women’s rights, transphobia, and so on. People wh inti outsi “gay, straight, or bi” feel reprented by “queer.

HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY

“Homo” is still a slur to many gay men, but jt as “queer” beme a power term, “homo” has seen a recent surge populary. The word beme cemented antigay lgo wh the famo CBS Reports episo “The Homosexuals, ” which aired on March 7, 1967 (I would be born on the same day 25 years later). The episo claimed homosexualy was an illns gay men uld treat if they tried.

Case Agast: If you were ever lled a “homo” by a homophobe, you might hate .

'SAY GAY' BILLBOARDS THAT FY GOV. RON DESANTIS' SO-LLED DON'T SAY GAY BILL ARE ABOUT TO BE POPPG UP FLORIDA CI

“Limp-wristed” is an offensive way to scribe gay men, particularly feme guys. “Dyke” is the most wily known lbian slur, one many gay women have embraced.

SYNONYMS OF GAY

A self-intified gay woman, she rried the bt sign the crowd, one that exemplified slur-reclamatn: “DYKE: We might not go down history, but we’ll do down on your sister! ” We give words Agast: If a homophobe lled you a dyke, would you still e ? It’s easy to see how “faggot” beme a hate word wh s implitn that gay men should that meang, words like “flamer” and “flamg” formed as rogatory terms for feme men.

To be “flamg” — to be exposed as gay — was somethg we lived fear of. That said, some guys wear their twk stat wh gay men will say “twk” was never a slur.

) formed as weird gay lgo for sex/datg purpos, not pejorativ to mean or opprs.

CATNS GAY

“Fairy” — an old-school antigay dig — has been stripped of s power by the Radil Faerie movement and new-era queers. ”There may have been gay people his cy, but the faerie muny is a smaller subgroup wh the larger muny that celebrat diversy, self-exprsn, genr fluidy, spirualism, and sexual openns.

” This is a mon English gay slur — one that, acrdg to some iends London, is the equivalent of “faggot” across the For: I’ll have to ask them if “poof” is makg a rurgence as a power Agast: It’s offensive to our neighbors the U.

WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?

Werk , are a ln different “queens” old-school gay lexin: drag queens, gym queens, leather queens, size queens (ahem). ” This one is so childish that ’s hardly worth mentng, but acrdg to the ter ’s still a term homophob e. Sce ’s a clear mentary on gay sex (meant to attack parts of our timacy that untls gay men have securi about), let me jt say that I’m absolutely a fudge packer — or whatever you ll the receptive end of that term.